Essex Wildlife Trust, Abbotts Hall Farm, Gt Wigborough, Colchester, Essex CO5 7RZ
What you get when you join Essex Wildlife Trust
Some of the benefits of membership are listed below, each of which will help promote your company. We hope that we can also help you and your staff to enjoy, and more fully understand, the local environment and its wildlife. It is satisfying to know you are associated with a responsible and successful local environment charity, one of the 47 county trusts, which form The Wildlife Trusts, formerly the Royal Society for Nature conservation. Your subscription will be used to finance our core conservation work.
BE SEEN BY OTHER BUSINESSES
Our Businesswise newsletter has articles of interest to the business community and could carry your wildlife or environmental news item. All corporate members are listed in each issue, circulated to over 800 companies twice a year.
STAFF INVOLVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
The company will receive transferable membership cards so that your staff and their families can visit our 85 nature reserves in their own time. Silver level or above receive a Wild Essex book outlining our reserves and what to look for.
YOUR SUPPORT ACKNOWLEDGED
Your company's membership will be recorded in our annual report circulated to all corporate and individual members totalling 20,000 and to other important people throughout the country.
PROMOTE YOUR INVOLVEMENT
We will present you with a prestigious framed certificate, renewed each year, for your reception area. The presentation itself often attracts local media coverage and, for larger companies, the chance for your branch or depot to make the company newsheet.
A WORKING PARTNERSHIP
We do not just want your money, vital as it is! We aim to create long term relationships with business people who genuinely care about the environment and our wildlife, and who want to help us with our conservation work.
A GREENER IMAGE
From silver level and above, you will have our open general permission to use one of the Trust’s corporate logos on your promotional material, headed paper, invoices and other places where it is important to be seen to be caring for the environment.
BE ENTERTAINED
Two representatives of your company will be invited as special guests on a programme of corporate events each year. These could be guided tours of our nature reserves or specific events of wildlife interest. We will be proud to show the conservation work we achieve and how your money is being used.
LEARN MORE ABOUT WILDLIFE AND WILDSPACE IN ESSEX
Three times a year you will receive local and national magazines suitable for distribution to your staff and for reception areas. From time to time special wildlife publications, events leaflets etc. are also made available for your staff notice boards.
KEEP IN TOUCH
We want you to enjoy and benefit from your corporate membership. Our corporate team will keep in touch with you regularly throughout the year. We can help to arrange special promotions or group visits, provide a hotline for wildlife queries, and offer you our business calendars.
There are five levels of subscription all of which are tax deductible:-
|
Member Level |
Benefits |
Cost of Membership |
| Platinum Plus | These are in-addition to Platinum, Choice of any two from the following:-
Corporate team day (for a maximum of 10 people) - normally worth £500 An advert in BusinessWise Magazine - normally worth £600 Corporate Stand Hire for your event, with two members of staff attending - normally worth £500 Participation in a Training or Survey programme (for a maximum of 10 people) which includes : insect ecology, small mammal ecology, our native trees, bat conservation and ecology, badger ecology and conservation, insect hibernation and winter bird identification - normally worth £500. Use of our small Conferencing Facilities and advertising of the event. Leaflet holders containing Trust information for distribution around company branches or areas. |
£2000 + VAT
equates to £500 /Q + VAT or £45.19 p.w. + VAT |
Platinum |
Opportunity to use visitor centres for business meetings Free of charge advertising at all six centres – worth £200 + Vat Preferential rates on site habitat, species survey or BAP planning consultancy – negotiated direct with EECOS Use of corporate logo A3 framed certificate Three sheets membership cards Invitation to Corporate Events Trust guide Two superb Wild Essex books covering all reserves/open spaces Three copies of Businesswise twice a year Six copies of EWT magazine three times a year |
£850 + Vat equates to £212.50/Q + Vat or only £16.35 p.w + Vat
|
Gold |
Opportunity to use visitor centres for business meetings free of charge Personal guided tour of a reserve for your employees Use of Corporate Logo A3 framed certificate Two sheets membership cards Invitation to Corporate Events Trust guide Superb Wild Essex book covering all reserves/open spaces Two copies of Businesswise twice a year Four copies of EWT magazine three times a year |
£425 + Vat
equates to £106.25/Q + Vat or only £8.17 p.w + Vat |
Silver |
Use of Corporate Logo A4 framed certificate One sheet membership cards Invitation to Corporate Events Trust Guide Superb Wild Essex book covering all reserves/open spaces Businesswise magazine twice a year Two copies of EWT magazine three times a year |
£175 + Vat equates to £43.75/Q + Vat or only £3.66 p.w + Vat |
Bronze |
A4 framed certificate One sheet membership cards Invitation to Corporate Events Trust Guide Businesswise magazine twice a year EWT magazine three times a year |
£75 + Vat equates to £18.75/Q + Vat or only £1.44 p.w + Vat |
All five levels will also receive:
A Corporate Directory giving contact details of all other members within the Corporate Scheme.
Access to training programmes for staff to develop skills in Leadership, Team Building etc including practical conservation work